I put up a new version trying to fix some extraneous duplicate-clip sounds, but i'm noticing the presence of a bug when copying url from active browser windows, trying to identify and fix.I'm hoping maybe if i fix it i will also be able to eliminate the slight delay when capturing browser urls with clips.

New beta version is up -- new "stats" page in options, attempt to fix weird issue with capturing from web page causing multiple copy operations, added option to move clip to top on paste.

Note: Sorry for this, but updaters should edit their "Quick Paste" group (right click on it and choose edit), and change the custom sort from "Ordering,CreationDateTime" to "Ordering,ModificationDateTime".

this is a big problem for me - even if I'm editing text and copy it, it gets saved/displayed as a thumbnail I mean, if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

Yeah, some of the more complex programs need a slew of associated stuff in order to maintain the purpose of whatever clip is being handled. I don't know how feasible it is to build that into CH+S manager. I know that it can be done but whether it's worth it is up to mouser.

if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

Yeah, some of the more complex programs need a slew of associated stuff in order to maintain the purpose of whatever clip is being handled.

as I said to mouser, I would like to see the "slew of associated stuff" handled by CH&S, but in the case of text, I would very much prefer it were handled simply as text and the associated stuff dumped rather than the way it's currently dealt with...

even if I'm editing text and copy it, it gets saved/displayed as a thumbnailI mean, if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

What must be happening here is that Illustrator is copying both text and image date to clipboard, and CHS is favoring the image data over the text. I'll make it favor text over image data, and then if need be i'll have to add some way for you to specify preferences on a per application basis.

if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

Yeah, some of the more complex programs need a slew of associated stuff in order to maintain the purpose of whatever clip is being handled.

as I said to mouser, I would like to see the "slew of associated stuff" handled by CH&S, but in the case of text, I would very much prefer it were handled simply as text and the associated stuff dumped rather than the way it's currently dealt with...

I could live with that but might there be the possibility of choosing to toggle how it's handled?

if I copy text I can paste it directly, but if I then copy something else, the previous clip is useless - it's thumbnail image gets pasted.

Yeah, some of the more complex programs need a slew of associated stuff in order to maintain the purpose of whatever clip is being handled.

as I said to mouser, I would like to see the "slew of associated stuff" handled by CH&S, but in the case of text, I would very much prefer it were handled simply as text and the associated stuff dumped rather than the way it's currently dealt with...

I could live with that but might there be the possibility of choosing to toggle how it's handled?

Some apps place 3 or more different formats of data on the clipboard for each copy event -- for example a vector image, a bitmap data image, some proprietary data, and some text.

In the ideal case, which CHS will eventually get to, CHS will be able to (perhaps overidable on a per-application basis) to capture Multiple formats of clipboard data for each copy event detected. This data could get pretty huge so it might be important to let people filter out which data to ignore from each app. But then it gets a bit hairy.

And then on pasting, it would paste all the different formats back.

Right now CHS only copies 1 chosen format of clipboard data for each copy event, either text or bitmap. And the new version will let you decide which it should prefer if BOTH are found (previous version always defaulted to image data if it is available).

Eventually I will try to make chs support the allformats mode, though that it messy.

ps. prepare for a change of the way i record image clips that will make you lose all your existing image clips.I apologize for that but i'm trying to get the database in a good state for expanding to handle not just image but other external file and other data.

Or maybe ideally it would remember text + formatting etc, but if pasted in another application that cant read associated data, then the text would be favoured?

Ideally, it would be handled through some sort of profile preferences, and not a toggle as I previously suggested.If this app, do thisIf that app, do thatIf none, default to the other

From mouser's posts it seems that his fertile brain is engaged with the 'problem'.

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I'm presuming that current behaviour is of no use to you either...

It's not ideal, no. It is light years ahead of having no image clips, however. Already I can do a great deal with CH+S+I but I'm greedy for more.The combination of arm-twisting 'clients' and mouser's generous indulgence could well produce something spectacular.

I notice that if I copy some types of text from MS OneNote, it goes into CHS as an image clip. It doesn't seem to consistently do this, and I have not yet figured out what the criteria are that govern whether it goes into CHS as text (which is what I usually want) or as an image.

CHS does not always copy when it is told to - i.e., no copy and no sound. If I go and do something else (clear the keyboard buffer?), then come back to the difficult copy, CHS will usually copy it OK.

IainB, try to open up the CHS options and go to the new Stats tab, and see if you can reproduce the problem and watch how, if at all, the stats change when it fails to copy anything. Let me know what you discover.